Television Books
Rutgers University Press The Synchronized Society: Time and Control From
Book SynopsisThe Synchronized Society traces the history of the synchronous broadcast experience of the twentieth century and the transition to the asynchronous media that dominate today. Broadcasting grew out of the latent desire by nineteenth-century industrialists, political thinkers, and social reformers to tame an unruly society by controlling how people used their time. The idea manifested itself in the form of the broadcast schedule, a managed flow of information and entertainment that required audiences to be in a particular place – usually the home – at a particular time and helped to create “water cooler” moments, as audiences reflected on their shared media texts. Audiences began disconnecting from the broadcast schedule at the end of the twentieth century, but promoters of social media and television services still kept audiences under control, replacing the schedule with surveillance of media use. Author Randall Patnode offers compelling new insights into the intermingled roles of broadcasting and industrial/post-industrial work and how Americans spend their time.Trade Review"Patnode asks a deceptively simple question—why were modern media audiences willing to structure their lives around broadcasting schedules? Only now, as the broadcast era recedes, can that question be posed historically. The book offers a striking new synthesis, linking broadcasting history to the longer history of time management in the US. Recent histories have often been audience-centered; this one reminds us of the imperatives towards rationalization, discipline, and efficiency that also shaped modern broadcasting."— David Goodman, coauthor of New Deal Radio: The Educational Radio ProjectTable of Contents1 The Bizarre Model of Broadcasting 1 2 The Evolution of Time Consciousness 13 3 Roots of the Synchronized Society 22 4 The Rationalization of Radio 41 5 The Synchronized Society 66 6 Learning to Love the Clock 87 7 Television and Latter-Day Synchrony 105 8 The Decline of Synchrony 128 9 The Arrhythmic Society 153 10 From Clock to Click 172 11 Moving Ahead While Looking Backward 187 Acknowledgments 193 Notes 195 Index 000
£28.90
Rutgers University Press The Synchronized Society: Time and Control From
Book SynopsisThe Synchronized Society traces the history of the synchronous broadcast experience of the twentieth century and the transition to the asynchronous media that dominate today. Broadcasting grew out of the latent desire by nineteenth-century industrialists, political thinkers, and social reformers to tame an unruly society by controlling how people used their time. The idea manifested itself in the form of the broadcast schedule, a managed flow of information and entertainment that required audiences to be in a particular place – usually the home – at a particular time and helped to create “water cooler” moments, as audiences reflected on their shared media texts. Audiences began disconnecting from the broadcast schedule at the end of the twentieth century, but promoters of social media and television services still kept audiences under control, replacing the schedule with surveillance of media use. Author Randall Patnode offers compelling new insights into the intermingled roles of broadcasting and industrial/post-industrial work and how Americans spend their time.Trade Review"Patnode asks a deceptively simple question—why were modern media audiences willing to structure their lives around broadcasting schedules? Only now, as the broadcast era recedes, can that question be posed historically. The book offers a striking new synthesis, linking broadcasting history to the longer history of time management in the US. Recent histories have often been audience-centered; this one reminds us of the imperatives towards rationalization, discipline, and efficiency that also shaped modern broadcasting."— David Goodman, coauthor of New Deal Radio: The Educational Radio ProjectTable of Contents1 The Bizarre Model of Broadcasting 1 2 The Evolution of Time Consciousness 13 3 Roots of the Synchronized Society 22 4 The Rationalization of Radio 41 5 The Synchronized Society 66 6 Learning to Love the Clock 87 7 Television and Latter-Day Synchrony 105 8 The Decline of Synchrony 128 9 The Arrhythmic Society 153 10 From Clock to Click 172 11 Moving Ahead While Looking Backward 187 Acknowledgments 193 Notes 195 Index 000
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Very Special Episodes: Televising Industrial and
Book SynopsisVery Special Episodes examines how the quintessential “very special episode” format became a primary way in which the television industry responded to and shaped social change, cultural traumas, and industrial transformations. With essays covering shows ranging from the birth of Desi Arnaz, Jr. on I Love Lucy to contemporary examples such as a delayed episode of Black-ish and the streaming-era phenomenon of the “Very Special Seasons” of UnReal and 13 Reasons Why, this collection seriously and critically uses the “very special episode” to chart the history of American television and its self-identified status as an arbiter of culture. Trade Review“’Very special episodes’ are an intriguing and surprisingly underexplored topic. This excellent collection pulls together an impressive array of approaches to this concept that will give readers a broad but detailed look at how ostensibly challenging material was made palatable on television.” -- Derek Kompare * Associate Professor of Film and Media Arts, Southern Methodist University * "Very Special Episodes establishes a compelling framework detailing how the TV industry makes and manages cultural value, relevance, and distinction not via aesthetic exceptionalism, but as special parts of its programming regularity. Historical grounding from the volume's sixteen astute essays provides a much-needed antidote to film studies' myopic 'discovery' of a 'golden age' of quality TV only in the premium HBO/Netflix era. This is Exhibit-A, a must-read, for understanding TV not just as an 'industry' but as a resilient critical industrial practice." -- John T. Caldwell * Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA, and author of Specworld: Studying Folds, Faultlines, and Fra *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments A Very Special Introduction JONATHAN COHN AND JENNIFER PORST 1 Listen to Save Lives: Music and the Atomic Bomb in Cold War Very Special Episodes REBA WISSNER 2 Blackface on a White Christmas: Bewitched’s “Sneaky Racism” JONATHAN COHN 3 Conspicuous Morality: Very Special Episodes, the War on Drugs, and Broadcast Deregulation PHILIP SCEPANSKI 4 “Due to Its Subject Matter”: Creating the Very Special Teen Sex Talk in 1980s Sitcoms BARBARA SELZNICK 5 “Thanksgiving Orphans”: Cheers and Very Special Holiday Episodes of Television JENNIFER PORST 6 Very Spooky Episodes: Roseanne, Working-Class Monsters, and the Playful Perversions of Halloween TV DAVID SCOTT DIFFRIENT 7 A Very Special Visit to the “Old Neighborhood”: Containing the Los Angeles Uprising on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air LINDSAY GIGGEY 8 The Night the Lights Went out at (Most of) NBC: Producing a Network with 1994’s Must See TV Blackout Stunt ERIN COPPLE SMITH 9 Ellen, “The Puppy Episode,” and a Special TV Milestone? RON BECKER 10 “And Was There a Lesson in All This?”: Weaponizing—and Subverting—the Very Special Episode ERIN GIANNINI 11 Animating Entertainment, or Very Special Media Reflexivity MIMI WHITE 12 Liveness and the Live Episode in Television Comedy BRETT MILLS 13 Too black-ish? Banned Very Special Episodes APRYL ALEXANDER AND JENNIFER PORST 14 Knife Crime and Passion: A Very Special Episode of EastEnders CHRISTINE BECKER 15 UnREAL, Sexual Assault, and the Very Special Season JORIE LAGERWEY AND TAYLOR NYGAARD Notes on Contributors Index
£30.60
Rutgers University Press Maid for Television: Race, Class, Gender, and a
Book SynopsisMaid for Television examines race, class, and gender relations as embodied in a long history of television servants from 1950 to the turn of the millennium. Although they reside at the visual peripheries, these figures are integral to the idealized American family. Author L. S. Kim redirects viewers' gaze towards the usually overlooked interface between characters, which is drawn through race, class, and gender positioning. Maid for Television tells the stories of servants and the families they work for, in so doing it investigates how Americans have dealt with difference through television as a medium and a mediator.The book philosophically redirects the gaze of television and its projection of racial discourse. Trade Review"Maid for Television is a rigorously intersectional and interdisciplinary study that places the racialized domestic servant at the center of U.S. television history. This figure is ubiquitously invisible, yet also absolutely essential to maintaining the white middle-class family as the nation’s social, economic, and political norm."— Chon A. Noriega, author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano CinemaTable of Contents1 Introduction: The Figure of the Racialized Domestic in American Television 2 Domesticating Blackness: African Americans in Service in Comedy and Drama 3 Shades of Whiteness: White Servants Keeping Up a Class Ideal 4 Unresolvable Roles: Asian American Servants as Perpetual Foreigners 5 Invisible but Viewable: The Latina Maid in the Age of Nannygate Epilogue AcknowledgmentsNotes Bibliography Index
£28.90
Rutgers University Press Maid for Television: Race, Class, Gender, and a
Book SynopsisMaid for Television examines race, class, and gender relations as embodied in a long history of television servants from 1950 to the turn of the millennium. Although they reside at the visual peripheries, these figures are integral to the idealized American family. Author L. S. Kim redirects viewers' gaze towards the usually overlooked interface between characters, which is drawn through race, class, and gender positioning. Maid for Television tells the stories of servants and the families they work for, in so doing it investigates how Americans have dealt with difference through television as a medium and a mediator.The book philosophically redirects the gaze of television and its projection of racial discourse. Trade Review"Maid for Television is a rigorously intersectional and interdisciplinary study that places the racialized domestic servant at the center of U.S. television history. This figure is ubiquitously invisible, yet also absolutely essential to maintaining the white middle-class family as the nation’s social, economic, and political norm." -- Chon A. Noriega * author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema *Table of Contents1 Introduction: The Figure of the Racialized Domestic in American Television 2 Domesticating Blackness: African Americans in Service in Comedy and Drama 3 Shades of Whiteness: White Servants Keeping Up a Class Ideal 4 Unresolvable Roles: Asian American Servants as Perpetual Foreigners 5 Invisible but Viewable: The Latina Maid in the Age of Nannygate Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney’s
Book SynopsisIn the summer of 2016, Disney introduced its first Latina princess, Elena of Avalor. Princesa of the Periphery explores this Disney property using multiple case studies to understand its approach to girlhood and Latinidad. Following the circuit of culture model, author Diana Leon-Boys teases out moments of complex negotiations by Disney, producers, and audiences as they navigate Elena’s circulation. Case studies highlight how a flexible Latinidad is deployed through corporate materials, social media pages, theme park experiences, and the television series to create a princess who is both marginal to Disney’s normative vision of princesshood and central to Disney’s claims of diversification. This multi-layered analysis of Disney’s mediated Latina girlhood interrogates the complex relationship between the U.S.’s largest ethnic minority and a global conglomerate that stands in for the U.S. on the global stage. Trade Review"In this fascinating and insightful study, Diana Leon-Boys demonstrates how Disney has constructed notions of Latina girlhood through its first Latina princess. Through apt exploration of Elena of Avalor on screen and at Disney theme parks, she illuminates how Latina girls’ media is positioned as both Latin American and Latinx, and always peripheral to the U.S. mainstream."— Mary Beltrán, author of Latino TV: A History and Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film and "Well researched and argued, Princesa of the Periphery is a welcome contribution to Latinx/girls/media studies. Focusing on Elena of Avalor, one of Disney’s newest 'empowered' yet marginalized princesses, Leon-Boys helps us to understand the complexities of representing and performing Latina girlhood in U.S. popular culture while also drawing attention to the potential consequences of such depictions for Latina girls, who are hungry for public recognition and deserving of authentic role models."— Mary Celeste Kearney, author of Girls Make Media and editor of Mediated Girlhoods "This is a vital and sophisticated study of the connection between Latina girlhood and the dream machine that is Disney. Leon-Boys attends to the voices of Latina girls, and complements this with powerful insights on how Latina girls are seen within media production cultures. The result is a powerful and compelling argument about the marketization of dreams and the reconstitution of Latina marginalization."— Hector Amaya, author of Citizenship Excess: Latinos/as, Media, and the NationTable of ContentsIntroduction: Latina Girls’ Media Studies 1 From Black-and-White Mouse to “Latina” Girl 2 The Flexible Production of a “Latina” Princess 3 Animated Latina Girlhood and the Continuum of Flexibility 4 On-Site Performance of Latinidad from East Coast to West Coast Conclusion: A Princess for All Is a Princess Without a Home Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£47.60
Rutgers University Press George's Run: A Writer's Journey through the
Book SynopsisGeorge Clayton Johnson was an up-and-coming short story writer who broke into Hollywood in a big way when he co-wrote the screenplay for Ocean’s Eleven. More legendary works followed, including Logan’s Run and classic scripts for shows like The Twilight Zone and Star Trek. In the meantime, he forged friendships with some of the era’s most visionary science fiction writers, including Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, Richard Matheson, and Rod Serling. Later in life, Johnson befriended comics journalist and artist Henry Chamberlain, and the two had long chats about his amazing life and career. Now Chamberlain pays tribute to his late friend in the graphic novel George’s Run, which brings Johnson’s creative milieu to life in vividly illustrated color panels. The result feels less like reading a conventional biography and more like sitting in on an intimate conversation between friends as they recollect key moments in pop culture history, as well as the colorful band of writers known as the “Rat Pack of Science Fiction.” Trade Review"George Clayton Johnson was one of the most brilliant and important writers of the twentieth century, creating classic episodes of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek, as well as coauthoring Logan's Run and Ocean's Eleven. George's Run spectacularly and charmingly invites you on the amazing journey of his life and legacy, from 1929 through the fifties and sixties to 2015 and beyond. It's a trip down Memory Lane via time machine and rocket ship — and it will definitely blow your mind!"— Marc Scott Zicree, author of The Twilight Zone Companion “Telling the story of postwar popular culture through the eyes of a pivotal writer, George’s Run offers fresh insights into pop culture history from a deeply personal perspective. Capturing the voice of a writer who helped shape our collective imagination, Chamberlain’s graphic novel highlights how a generation of creatives aspired to reshape our collective vision. This story calls attention to the creative community that shaped American culture. Whether you are a fan of television or intrigued by the creative communities that define a pivotal moment in U.S. entertainment history, this story of a writer’s journey will engage and inform.”— Julian C. Chambliss, Professor of English, Michigan State University "George Clayton Johnson’s limitless imagination fueled the foundations of sci-fi that made me the genre geek I am today. Filtered through Henry Chamberlain’s whimsical art, George’s Run is an intimate look at a personable writer’s journey and inspirations behind his iconic tales."— David Weiner, director of In Search of Darkness and editor in chief of Famous Monsters of Filmland “In this surprising and inventive graphic book, Henry Chamberlain looks deeply into the life and writing of George Clayton Johnson. What he finds is a truly American story that blends fact and fiction to describe the life of an underappreciated voice in 1960s Hollywood.”— Bart Beaty, author of Twelve-Cent Archie and Comics Versus ArtTable of ContentsForeword A Touch of Strange A Historical Portal A Remembrance Afterword Interview with George Clayton Johnson
£39.95
Rutgers University Press There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and
Book SynopsisThere She Goes Again interrogates the representation of ostensibly powerful women in transmedia franchises, examining how presumed feminine traits—love, empathy, altruism, diplomacy—are alternately lauded and repudiated as possibilities for effecting long-lasting social change. By questioning how these franchises reimagine their protagonists over time, the book reflects on the role that gendered exceptionalism plays in social and political action, as well as what forms of knowledge and power are presumed distinctly feminine. The franchises explored in this book illustrate the ambivalent (post)feminist representation of women protagonists as uniquely gifted in ways both gendered and seemingly ungendered, and yet inherently bound to expressions of their femininity. At heart,There She Goes Again asks under what terms and in what contexts women protagonists are imagined, envisioned, embodied, and replicated in media. Especially now, in a period of gradually increasing representation, women protagonists demonstrate the importance of considering how we should define—and whether we need—feminine forms of knowledge and power.Trade Review"In an analysis both invigorating and theoretically rigorous, Aviva Dove-Viebahn skillfully deconstructs the age-old dichotomy of feminism versus femininity to produce a nuanced reading of popular culture's mediation of gendered empowerment. This is essential reading for readers interested in gender, media and power, and a valuable contribution to ongoing cultural debates.”— Miriam Kent, author of Women in Marvel Films "For all of us who love our pop-culture wonder women and have wondered about their feminist implications, There She Goes Again asks fearless questions about these characters and offers brilliant insights about their appeal. Aviva Dove-Viebahn explores what female exceptionalism means for super-powered heroines, and as the title suggests, advances timely insights about how we imagine and picture extraordinary women in the postfeminist era." — Linda Mizejewski, author of Hardboiled & High Heeled: The Woman Detective in Popular Culture “Relying on close readings that in turn recognize nuances of media texts, Dove-Viebahn accurately and persuasively enumerates the potentialities and pitfalls of gendered understandings. She brings together media analysis with a serious sense of what is at stake, which is, in short, the contemporary state of feminist thought.” — Suzanne Leonard, co-editor of Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary CultureTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Why Feminine Intuition?: The Gendering of Knowledge and Power 2. Seriality and ‘Strong Female Characters’: The Double Bind of Women’s Empowerment 3. From Girl Power to Intersectional Sisterhood: Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of Belonging 4. Motherhood and Myth: Inside and Outside the Family Circle 5. At the End of the World: Apocalyptic Bodies and the Feminine Sublime Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
£25.19
Rutgers University Press Black and Blue TV
£93.75
Campus Verlag Trans*Time: Projecting Transness in European (TV)
Book SynopsisThe first study of trans* representation across European television. Trans* visibility has reached a peak in recent years, so much so, that we can state that we are witnessing a primetime, or trans*time, in television and digital streaming series. This visibility has occurred concurrently with a process of social popularization and academic legitimization of the series. .Paradoxically, trans* people face ever-mounting discrimination, insidious violence, and fatal murder rates. Trans*Time is the first international, media, and comparative approach to the representation of trans* characters in series in Europe.
£38.00
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Filmmusik: Ein alternatives Kompendium
Book SynopsisDieser Band nimmt eine komplementäre Akzentsetzung zu den in jüngster Zeit erschienenen Büchern zur Filmmusik vor und rückt insbesondere auch bislang weniger beachtete Aspekte der Filmmusik wie die Tradition der Ouvertüre oder die Rolle der Stimme in den Fokus. Einige Autoren verschränken gezielt Perspektiven aus Wissenschaft und Praxis, indem sie z. B. Produktionsbedingungen und Kompositionsprozesse erläutern. Trade Review“... Alle Beiträge haben ein ungewöhnlich hohes Niveau, ich nenne elf, die ich besonders gut finde. ... Nicht nur für Experten der Filmmusik ein sehr lesenswertes Kompendium.” (Hans Helmut Prinzler, hhprinzler.de, 4. August 2018)Table of ContentsVorwort.- Technische Verfahren in der Filmmusik.- Akteure und Einflussfaktoren bei der Realisierung von Filmmusik.- Filmmusik und die multimedialen Künste des 19. Jh.- Zur Rekonstruktion von Stummfilm-Musik.- Musik und Zwischentitel im Stummfilm.- Die Filmmusikouvertüre.- Narratologie und Filmmusik.- Besonderheiten der Musik von US-Fernsehserien.- Psychologie der Filmmusik.- Filmstimme.- Sound Design.- Die audiovisuelle Gestaltung digitaler Spiele.- Musik, Soundscapes und Soundmix in afrikanischen Filmen.- Filmmusik jenseits des Films.- Filmmusik-Recherche im Internet.
£58.49
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Deutsch-Türkische Filmkultur im Migrationskontext
Book SynopsisDas Buch bietet mit einer mehr als 40 Jahre Migrationskino thematisierenden Bandbreite an Aufsätzen, Interviews und Filmographien ein umfassendes Nachschlagewerk zum deutsch-türkischen Kino an. Mit diesem erhalten Lehrende, Forschende und Studierende der Film-, Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften erstmalig einen Überblick über die Diversität des deutsch-türkischen Kinos, die von der Repräsentation der Emigration im türkischen „Yeşilçam“-Kino der 1960er bis zu den kulturell hybriden Identitätsangeboten des neuen deutsch-türkischen Migrationskinos reicht.Table of ContentsVERMESSUNGEN- Das Kino der ‚Pleasures of Hybridity‘, Neuer Deutscher Film und türkisches Kino- Der deutsch-türkische Film und das Feld des Dokumentarischen RAHMUNGEN- Visuelle Kultur- Globalisierung(RE-)JUSTIERUNGEN- Medium- Produktion- Repräsentation- DiskursBEFRAGUNGEN
£49.49
Palgrave Macmillan Television Studies and Research on Series
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£66.49
Springer VS Star Trek Gestern Heute Morgen
Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Vom Wandel einer Utopie.- Die Selbsthistorisierung von Zukunftsbildern als Ausdruck eines Geschichtsbewusstseins im Wandel.- Vision und Technologie als Voraussetzung für eine politische Utopie am Beispiel Star Trek.- Die dunkle Seite der Utopie.- Ethik und Recht der Mensch-KI-Interaktion.-Künstliche Intelligenz und Frankensteins Schatten in Star Trek: Discovery.- (Un-)Sichtbarkeit von Race und Queerness in der diskriminierungsfreien Zukunftsutopie Star Treks.- Die Geburt der Slashfiktion aus dem Geist des Star Trek-Universums.- Star Trek:Picard between Nostalgic Reunions and Introspection of '90s Trek.- Marginalisierung und Aufwertung der Animation am Beispiel der Serien The Animated Series, Lower Decks und Prodigy.- Hommage oder Parodie? Lower Decks als humorvolle Selbstreflexion der Next Generation.- All Our Yesterdays. Reboots und Reflexionen in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
£76.49
Springer VS Können Kino und Fernsehen uns zu besseren
Book SynopsisZiele und Vorgehensweise der Studie .- Kardiopulmonale Reanimation in Deutschland.- Medienwissenschaftliche und methodische Vorüberlebungen.- Diskursanalyse der Studienlage.- Reanimationsdarstellungenin deutschen Fernsehserien.- Interventionen Anschlussfragen Fazit.- Executive Summary.- Literatur.
£49.49
Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien Robert Beavers
Book SynopsisIn a career spanning five decades, Robert Beavers has distinguished himself as one of the most important American avant-garde filmmakers. From My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure, his cycle of 18 films made across Europe since 1967, to Pitcher of Colored Light (2007) and The Suppliant (2010), intimate portraits shot in the U.S., Beavers has produced a deeply original film language framed by his use of colored filters and mattes. His investigations of the handwork of anonymous artisans complement his dialogues with Ruskin, Leonardo, and Borromini in Ruskin (1975/1997), From the Notebook of (1971/1998), and The Hedge Theater (1986/2002). This volume contains critical investigations of Beavers' most important films and a collection of the filmmaker's own writings. Occupying a unique space between poetry and philosophy, his aphoristic meditations vivify his own work and generously illuminate the art of film.
£22.50
University of Tokyo Press Collaborative Governance of Forestry
Book SynopsisThis extensive reference writes a modern history of forestry in Japan, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, and other Asian countries, reflecting industrial and colonial exploitation, periods of excessive deforestation, and the alienation of local residents from natural resources. Drawing on their experience as "participant observers" in local practice, the authors suggest new, "inclusive" approaches to forestry governance that support sustainable development, environmental preservation, and productive collaboration by various stakeholders.The mismatched interests of local citizens and outsiders has split the development of Asia's natural and cultural resources. Taking this complexity into account, the essays in this volume advance a definition of effective governance that achieves more than the successful execution of resource management. It pursues a new vision of society in which all stakeholders collaborate to govern the use of certain resources. This volume outlines two key conditions for effective resource management: sharing and commitment (or graduated membership), which transcend mere material issues to determine the social and cultural value of a resource.Table of ContentsChapter 1 - Historical Typology of Collaborative Governance: Modern Forest Policy in Japan (Hiroaki KAKIZAWA)Chapter 2 - Endogenous Development and Collaborative Governance in Japanese Mountain Villages (Hironori OKUDA and Makoto INOUE)Chapter 3 - Collaborative Forest Governance in Mass Private Tree Plantation Management: Company-Community Forestry Partnership System in Java, Indonesia (PHBM) (Yasuhiro YOKOTA, Kazuhiro HARADA, ROHMAN, and Nur Oktalina SILVI, WIYONO)Chapter 4 - Legitimacy for "Great Happiness": The Communal Resource Utilization in Biche Village, Marovo Lagoon in the Solomon Islands (Motomu TANAKA)Chapter 5 - Task-sharing, to the Degree Possible: Collaboration Between Out-Migrants and Remaining Residents of a Mountain Community Experiencing Rural Depopulation (Mika OKUBO)Chapter 6 - Collaborative Governance for Planted Forest Resources: Japanese Experiences (Noriko SATO, Takahiro FUJIWARA, and Vinh Quang NGUYEN)Chapter 7 - Forest Resources and Actor Relationships: A Study of Changes Caused by Plantations in Lao PDR (Kimihiko HYAKUMURA)Chapter 8 - Whom to Share With? Dynamics of the Food Sharing System of the Shipibo in Peruvian Amazon (Mariko OHASHI)Chapter 9 - Providing Regional Information for Collaborative Governance: Case Study Regarding Green Tourism at Kaneyama Town, Yamagata, Japan (Nobuhiko TANAKA)Chapter 10 - Simulating Future Land-Cover Change: A Probabilistic Cellular Automata Model Approach (Arief DARMAWAN and Satoshi TSUYUKI)Chapter 11 - Potential of the Effective Utilization of New Woody Biomass Resources in the Melak City area of West Kutai Regency in the Province of East Kalimantan (Masatoshi SATO)
£56.00
Tulika Print Communication Services After Crisis – Adjustment, Recovery and Fragility
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£999.99
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Reading Comprehension in Polish and English –
Book SynopsisThis book is about reading. Throughout the book, the author explains the complexity of the dual-language involvement of FL/L2 reading by showing how L1 and FL/L2 factors interplay in FL/L2 reading. The main aim of the book is to explore reading in English in the foreign/second language context as a cross-linguistic phenomenon and to present the results of a think-aloud study which investigated reading in Polish as the L1 and English as the FL of Polish learners of English. The project consisted of six stages, each focussing on a different aspect of reading. Thus, the following was explored: reading strategies, problems and solutions, the way the subjects constructed their representations of the texts, the students' individual patterns of developing comprehension and effectiveness in identifying the main ideas. The findings revealed both differences and similarities between the subjects' reading in Polish and their reading in English. The book offers implications for further research and elucidates the usefulness of think-aloud protocols in foreign language instruction.
£32.30
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo China at the Beginning of the Twenty–First
Book SynopsisChina at the beginning of the 21st century intrigues many researchers around the world. No different was the enthusiasm widely shared among the participants of the students' conference China at the beginning of the 21st century organized by the Institute of Middle and Far East Studies of Jagiellonian University in Kraków in April 2010. Research enthusiasm and inquisitive attitude of presenters and discussants observed during the conference inspired to go beyond the university walls and put this publication together. The problems discussed within this volume provide the readers with a background of most vital issues in modern China. They are related to the challenges of the Chinese society and state's international skirmishes. Each article is separately concluded by the author's findings, which is highly admirable, since the authors are young, but promising adepts in the field. At the same time, being open for criticism, the authors invite us to take a long hard look at China's modern challenges.Trade ReviewIn the 1980s and 1990s, China went through an intensive process of liberalization of social and cultural life, as well as economic reforms. As a result, China strengthened its position of the leading player of the globalized world, being quickly westernized at the same time. On the other hand, China is also one of the oldest civilizational centres, with a different and rich musical, theatrical, literary, philosophical, historical, and scientific tradition. That is why it is natural that various aspects concerning the present and the history of China arouse the interest of scientists that represent various areas of science. ( ) The collective work China at the Beginning of the 21st Century edited by Lukasz Gacek, PhD, and Ewa Trojnar, PhD, is a sign of this natural curiosity. ( ) All texts run in this book are on a proper factual and scientific level. The entirety describes and explains the reader the chosen, interesting areas of the Chinese reality at the beginning of the 21st century concerning cultural studies, international relations, as well as military and energy safety. -- Professor Dr. hab. Hubert Królikowski, Jagiellonian University
£29.75
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Lifelong Learning Today – New Areas, Contexts,
Book SynopsisLifelong Learning Today is the result of cooperation between the scientists of the University of Ljubljana and the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. The aim of the authors and editors was not to create a compendium of knowledge about the current state of the development of education in the field of lifelong learning. The creation of a publication that would present a comprehensive, "photographic" image of the state of research and practices in the field of lifelong learning would be so laborious and long-term that it would not keep up with the constant changes which appear in reality. The authors decided to present a compilation of examples illustrating areas worth considering, contexts and practices, as well as certain problems and dilemmas.The image of the reality outlined in this book is very selective, but "spatial" to such an extent that it enables for the grasping of its size and dynamism of development. It encompasses not only significant issues from the standpoint of economy in the scope of key competences, but also concepts related to the social, cultural, scientific, artistic and common schooling, leading to more comprehensive personal development and to raising the quality of life.Trade ReviewThe book Lifelong Learning Today: New Areas, Contexts, Practices is the result of cooperation between individuals from two well-known centres of pedagogical thought and the adult learning theory: University of Ljubljana and Jagiellonian University in Kraków. The authors of the texts constituting the volume have a contemporary and essentially correct understanding of the concept and idea of lifelong learning as a continuing process which begins in early childhood and goes on until the grand old age, formally divided into time periods requiring defined pedagogical strategies. The authors pointed out the areas and contexts of education not used so far in their respective countries and unanimously formulated suggestions on improving the worrying situation. Considering the process of lifelong learning in a vertical dimension, they demonstrated the achievements and shortcomings of education and educating people at its various stages, including adult education. They pointed out, how the effects and shortcomings of education in a given period of life affect the educational efforts in the subsequent periods and how to use positive organisational and methodical experiences from earlier stages of education in its later stages.The book contains numerous timeless supranational generalisations, which often lead to unambiguous suggestions regarding the optimisation of the practices associated with education and educating people at various stages in their lives.It is due to those attributes that the book will be of interest not only to theorists but also practitioners committed to furthering lifelong education. -- Prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Aleksander, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University
£29.75
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Media in China, China in the Media – Processes,
Book SynopsisMass media play a significant role in the production and reproduction of identities and lifestyles, values and world-views. They also convey information about the world we live in, as they reflect elements of the broader context within which they come into being. This volume, the first on this topic to be published in Poland, brings together eleven essays that offer a complex approach to both media in the PRC and the way China and the Chinese are presented in the media of other countries. Individual chapters discuss images constructed, persuasive techniques employed, political undertakings and official stances reflected, as well as popular feeling expressed in the Chinese official and popular press, information websites, Internet forums, mainstream Western press, Polish and Italian media, Zambian Internet forums, and Indonesian cinema. Media in China, China in the Media. Processes, Strategies, Images, Identities will be stimulating reading for students and scholars of media and mass communication, political studies, cultural and gender studies, interested in the following topics: the Chinese media discourse, transparency as to government activities, Chinese nationalism, the Chinese diaspora, Sino-African relations.
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo 1914–1918 – An Anatomy of Global Confl1ict
Book Synopsis1914–1918: An Anatomy of Global Conflict recounts a history of the First World War from an anthropological perspective. It shares the stories of individual participants, which include soldiers, civilians, and women. The study revisits the events of the war through the lens of everyday life, economic affairs, migration, invasion, military occupation, the role of civilian infrastructure, and the impact of the national question; and it undertakes a clinical analysis of various models of ground warfare.Trade ReviewChwalba's concise account adopts an anthropological approach set within the framework of an innovative layout designed by the author and announced in the title of his book This is a highly recommendable book, and its quality is determined above all by its structuralist approach to the discourse. -- Professor Tomasz Schramm * Institute of History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan *
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo U.S.–Latin American Relations
Book SynopsisU.S. – Latin American Relations is the next volume in Basic American Documents. It presents a collections of primary sources related to U.S. relations with the Latin American and Caribbean region. The selection of texts and documents seek to demonstrate a more modern and complicated history. There are, of course, several texts documenting the American domination over Latin American and Caribbean States. Of particular note are those outlining recent differences between the United States and its southern neighbors over anti-drug policy and attitudes toward economic development. The works of Simón Bolivar and Jose Marti have provided eloquent testimony of how American governments have historically sought to dominate its southern neighbors. Mexico, Cuba, and most of Central American and Caribbean States have especially painful memories of American imperialism. But there are also significant documents that demonstrate how the United States and the Latin American and Caribbean states have established significant forms of regional cooperation. In the past these agreements have helped to ease an otherwise conflicting sets of interests, values, and objectives. The pan-American movement in the 1920s and 1930s is perhaps the best example of this cooperation that at the time was historically unique in international affairs.Trade ReviewIn this volume, one can find the most important documents capturing two hundred years of U.S.–Latin American relations, with sources relating to both politics and economics. There are also primary sources relating to contemporary problems, such as the antidrug war and regional cooperation, each preceded by a comprehensive introduction. -- Jadwiga Kiwerska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznn
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Standard Turkic C–Type Reduplications
Book SynopsisKamil Stachowski examines partial interfixed reduplications in standard Turkic languages. Generally no longer productive, this type of reduplication serves primarily to intensify adjectives and adverbs. Unlike previous texts, his book considers the phenomenon comparatively across twenty modern languages and is based on complete collections of examples. It approaches the subject from a diachronic perspective, combining etymological, historical-comparative, and quantitative methodology.Trade ReviewStachowski presents the basic semantics of Turkic reduplications, from the expected intensification to other interesting features. His work has a clear and logical structure, and he displays an excellent understanding of the material, presenting the phenomenon of reduplication against a wider and not just Turkic background. Numerous tables, graphs, and maps substantially facilitate comprehension." -- Rafal Molencki, University of Silesia, Katowice
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo History, Memory, Trauma in Contemporary British
Book SynopsisHistory, memory and trauma as well as their complex interrelations have been lying at the centre of interdisciplinary academic debates since the end of the previous century. These are also themes with which contemporary writers and other artists are increasingly preoccupied in their work. History, Memory, Trauma in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction is an attempt at analysing the relationship between history, memory and trauma in the selected novels of Pat Barker, Sebastian Barry, Kazuo Ishiguro and John Banville. The author examines the notion of memory in a variety of contexts: collective memory in the historical novels of Barker and Barry, individual memory as a foundation of the sense of self in the novels of Banville and Ishiguro, and traumatic memory in the novels of Barry and Ishiguro. By applying the theoretical framework of trauma studies to the work of those renowned writers, History, Memory, Trauma offers new interpretations of their novels. The author demonstrates that contemporary fiction moves beyond mere representation of trauma and engages the reader in the role of co-witness who enables the process of working through trauma.
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Events Over Endeavours – Image of the Chinese in
Book SynopsisThe contemporary Chinese engagement in Africa dates back to the 1950's, and it has gained momentum in the last two decades. The Chinese presence in African countries has been getting more and more visible; not only the number of Chinese investments in the area and international agreements has been increasing, but also the size of the Chinese diaspora in the region has grown. China has been looking for new sources of natural resources and markets on which the 'made in China' goods would be welcomed, therefore it spares no efforts to establish and maintain possibly good relationships with Africa, especially with political elites of African countries. At first, the Chinese expansion was supported by the country's image of an older brother, a co-victim of the Western domination, and a example to be followed on the the path leading to development. This image, however, has started to be covered with some spots and shadows, caused by various Chinese activities. In this book we aimed to sketch the image of China and the Chinese in Zambia and Angola, presented by textual media and citizens of these countries, and to trace the most important factors influencing it. Moreover, we brought up some possible consequences of the prevalence of a particular – positive or negative – image for the future development of the Chinese expansion in the region.To obtain the possibly detailed image, we decided to combine quantitative and qualitative analysis of media content with results of our field work conducted in Africa.Trade ReviewThe study is focused on the extraordinarily important topical problem of the Chinese expansion in Africa. Both the applied innovative methodology and the new approach towards the Sino-African relations, focused on the perception of the Chinese presence in the region, are the factors that distinguish this work. [ ] As the authors themselves state, in the summary they try to avoid drawing generalising conclusions; rather, they focus on pointing out the differences in the perception of China and the Chinese between Angola and Zambia. Acknowledging the increasing importance of the perception of China and the Chinese in Africa as an important factor influencing Sino-African relations constitutes the most valuable conclusion of the study. -- Prof. Dominik Mierzejewski, University of Lodz
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Religion and Politics in the Greco–Roman World
Book SynopsisPapers published in this volume are dealing with different aspects of relations between politics and religion in the Mediterranean world in period from IV c. B.C. to III c. A.D. In individual papers are discussed and interpreted various examples of interference of politics, philosophy, and religion. Four papers are focused on Greece and the Hellenistic world, seven on republican and imperial Rome. Papers are published in English (6), German (3) and Italian.
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Cereals of Antiquity and Early Byzantine Times –
Book SynopsisThe present book entitled Cereals of antiquity and early Byzantine times. Wheat and barley in medical sources (second to seventh centuries AD), penned by Maciej Kokoszko, Krzysztof Jagusiak and Zofia Rzeznicka, aims at a detailed analysis of the evolution of dietetic doctrines and an assessment of the value of medical sources for historians of food. In order to achieve the goal, the authors have analysed select medical sources composed between the 2nd and the 7th centuries AD, i.e., treatises published from the moment of canonizing dietetic doctrine by Galen up to the composition of the medical encyclopaedia compiled by Paul of Aegina and the publication of the anonymous work entitled De cibis. Within this timeframe, there appeared a number of works which, following the assumptions of the Hippocratic school, contain a cohesive discourse devoted to the role of food in maintaining and restoring human health, thus allowing us to trace the development of diets during the period in question.In order to conduct their research, the authors have selected a food group, namely cereals and cereal products, starting with common and durum wheat (and including in the research hulled wheats, i.e. einkorn, emmer and spelt) and finishing with barley, since all the above-mentioned crops constituted the basis of diet of the majority of peoples inhabiting the Mediterranean. The researches have shown the history of the said cereals in the area around the Mediterranean Sea, singled out the most important products obtained therefrom, demonstrated their dietetic evaluations as presented in the sources, determined the place of cereals in cuisine and outlined their role in medical procedures.The final result of the analyses proves stability of the dietetic doctrines throughout the researched period, explains intricacies of the conceptual system developed by the medical doctors to describe cereal and other foodstuffs, defines recipes, methods and technologies profited from in food processing and outlines the place of cereal substances (both as independent medicinal agents or as ingredients included in composed medicaments) in popular medical treatment methods.Trade ReviewThe book was preceded by multi-faceted analytical research, whose results were successively presented both in numerous academic papers and lectures as well as at national and international conferences. These, and especially the interdisciplinary international symposia, formed opportunity to gather enough critical feedback, commentaries and evaluations of the project to introduce required modifications in the research. Thereby the concept of the book resulted from a polemic interaction, which necessarily improved the final output. As a result a synthetic volume has been composed, which constitutes a comprehensive presentation of the issues which have not been subject to such a manifold exposition so far. It should be noted that the book has been written by three authors, each specializing in the field for a long time, and thereby having acquired much expertise. -- Piotr Kochanek, KUL
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Statistical Profiles of Women′s and Men′s Status
Book Synopsis?This book follows multiple threads. It discusses the concept of gender, which is an essential category of analysis in the social sciences. It then focuses on women's and men's professional, political, and social circumstances, such as the workplace and time management and their activities in the research and development and patent sectors. These categories delineate the scope of "innovative gender" as a critical tool of analysis through which we can appreciate with greater depth the role of gender in the innovation process.Trade ReviewThis book initiates a novel approach to a widely discussed concept in the literature. It integrates multilevel and interdisciplinary research exploring differences in the statistical profiles of women and men and their effects on innovation for national economies within the European Union. -- Pawel Kawalec, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
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Instituto Monsa de Ediciones Joker
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed "Clown Prince of Crime," Joker. A character with a physical appearance characterised by a disfigured face, white skin, green dyed hair, and red lips. A psychopathic genius with a sadistic and twisted humour. A lover of weapons to which he always gives a comic touch; his jack-in-the-boxes and cigarette shaped explosives are a classic in his craziest plans with deadly results. Joker has had countless scriptwriters and cartoonists who have shaped his personality and appearance. Much of the fame achieved by this villain comes from the actors who have played him on the big screen. Each actor who has given life to the character has taken a different path, and each of them is remembered by the character's followers for different reasons. Without a doubt, thanks to them, the character is more popular than ever. Worthy of mention is the voice over in the animated series by the incomparable Mark Hamill, while on television he was brought to life by César Romero (1966-1968), and in the cinema by Jack Nicholson (1989), Heath Ledger (2008), Jared Leto (2016), and finally the extraordinary Joaquin Phoenix (2019). AUTHOR: Eva Minguet is a creative based in Barcelona and author of several books including the popular Women's Club, Wes Anderson Tribute, Tarantino, Stranger Things, and Twin Peaks.
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